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SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY

SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY (British Columbia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,128,489 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA/LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE (C$436,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$471k
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
C$1.1M
Grants received
C$13M
Net assets
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%

Against its field

SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve33.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.5M) Expenses 100 (C$638k) Net assets 100 (C$9.0M)2018 Revenue 27 (C$405k) Expenses 71 (C$455k) Net assets 114 (C$10M)2019 Revenue 17 (C$251k) Expenses 49 (C$312k) Net assets 110 (C$9.9M)2020 Revenue 16 (C$231k) Expenses 48 (C$308k) Net assets 109 (C$9.8M)2021 Revenue 35 (C$523k) Expenses 58 (C$372k) Net assets 111 (C$10.0M)2022 Revenue 39 (C$584k) Expenses 71 (C$456k) Net assets 135 (C$12M)2023 Revenue 53 (C$783k) Expenses 86 (C$546k) Net assets 138 (C$12M)2024 Revenue 32 (C$471k) Expenses 94 (C$597k) Net assets 142 (C$13M)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (94)Net assets (142)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 39% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,649 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$852k
’17
−C$50k
’18
−C$61k
’19
−C$77k
’20
C$152k
’21
C$128k
’22
C$237k
’23
−C$126k
’24
34
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose C$45k → C$669k.

From the CRA filings of SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY.

39%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 80% · 2019 42% · 2020 33% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

36% of SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
British Columbia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$102k
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  • 22% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In British Columbia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 28%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY?
SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY (British Columbia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,128,489 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA/LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE (C$436,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$1,128,489 in grants to SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY?
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA/LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE is the largest funder on record, with C$436,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register